TITLE: Lilo beautified
LFS VERSION: 3.3
AUTHOR: yoonsoo
SYNOPSIS:
How to get a nice picture as boot prompt
HINT:
Version 0.3
23/07/2002
Contents
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1. What do you need ?
2. Copying the bmp-file
3. preparing lilo.conf
4. Finish
5. Additional Remarks and Warnings
1. What do you need
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lilo-22.2
or
lilo-22.3.2
nasm-0.98.34
(just install nasm the way you usually install packages)
640x480x16 bmp file
2. Copying BMP
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You can use any BMP with the dimensions 640x480 and a colordepth
of 16Bit. If you decide to use one of the BMP's shipped with
the lilo-package, you can find them at lilo-src/sample/
Just copy one of them to /boot (or somewhere else if
you want to). Imho logo64a.bmp looks good so I will refer
to this on.
3. Preparing lilo.conf
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There are two ways
a) set the symlink /boot/boot.b to /boot/boot-bmp.b
b) add install=boot/boot-bmp.b to lilo.conf
I prefer to change the symlink for several reasons, so you
will find no install= in my lilo.conf below
add the following lines to lilo.conf
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bitmap = /boot/logo64a.bmp (or whatever bmp you took)
bmp-colors = 6,9,0,15,9,0
bmp-table = 59,5,1,18,
bmp-timer = 66,28,6,8,0
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bmp-colors: here is where you set the colors used in your menu
the first three entries belongs to the normal menu-text and the
last three entries specifies the colors of the highlighted
menu-text.
bmp-table: location of the menu-table. First two entries gives
the x, and y cooridiantes of the menu table. 59 means column 59,
you cal also use (eg) p400 to adress in pixels instead. The next
two entries are the numbers of the rows and columns in our menu table.
The last entry will specify the space between the columns if there are
more than one.
bmp-timer: location of the timer-box for the countdown. The first two
entries are the coordinates and the next last values specifies the colors
alternatively, if you use a lilo version greater than 22.3 you could also do:
add the followjng lines to lilo.conf
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bitmap = /boot/logo64a.bmp (or whatever bmp you took)
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cat > /boot/logo64a.dat << "EOF"
bmp-colors = 6,9,0,15,9,0
bmp-table = 59,5,1,18,
bmp-timer = 66,28,6,8,0
EOF
lilo -E /boot/logo64a.dat
(see the manpage and the README's shipped with your lilo-Source for
further details)
4. Finish
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run lilo and reboot
Enjoy your new Boot-menu ;)
5. Additional Remarks & Warnings
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As it can be very risky to use lilo you should always have a
working boot disk to 'repair' your boot image if things went
wrong, and it will go wrong for sure ;)
Be sure, that your bmp-file exists and will not be erased
accidently.
And last not least : never forget to run lilo after you have
made some changes.
There are advantages and disadvantages which comes with
upgrading to lilo-22.3. Just check which is more important for
you.
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If you have any ideas, suggestions or found a bug you can send a
mail to:
yoon soo
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